Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Nickelodeon's first theatrical feature built around a Kenan & Kel sketch, produced with Paramount and Brian Robbins at the helm. It rode the wave of kid-friendly comedies that treated fast food culture as a launchpad for absurdity, giving the network a proof of concept for turning its television stars into movie leads. For a generation raised on the show, the film represents a bridge between Saturday morning television and mainstream cinema, and it remains a touchstone of that particular strain of nineties studio comedy aimed squarely at younger audiences while still finding an adult cult following.
Mr. Bailey is the alligator kept behind Good Burger's counter, a running gag object tied to the restaurant's chaos and its stranger-than-fiction inventory. Feeding him is one of those small comic business moments that fans repeat and quote long after the plot details fade, the kind of beat that defines a supporting joke rather than a headline scene. A 35mm cell from this moment gives a collector a physical fragment of that gag, a piece of the film's texture rather than its marquee spectacle, valuable precisely because it preserves a background detail audiences still remember fondly.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital composite optical release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a mono or stereo optical print; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, indicating a Dolby Digital optical composite track.
Edge print
Not fully legible at this capture resolution; partial characters are visible along the lower edge margin but cannot be quoted with confidence.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight warm-neutral tint; the dye image reads as colour positive with no obvious red shift or significant fading visible.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the subject matter is consistent with a live-action comedy feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The composite Dolby Digital plus variable-area optical soundtrack format and colour positive stock are consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s theatrical release print, matching the 1997 release date on record.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000062519
Original Film CaptureAs received
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